About Us
Zoey Handley
After years of convincing herself that it was an impossible dream, Zoey Handley took her first steps into video game media and started the Game Complaint Department (now Maximum Utmost, the site you see now). Before long, she somehow accomplished her dream by write for publications like GameSpot, Nintendo Force, and Destructoid. Even better, some people say they like her writing! On the internet! A place where nobody says anything nice!
Not knowing what else to do, she leans on her love of the weird, the awful, and the retro to entertain. Her new dream is to just stay submerged in video games and leave her fingerprints on everything. Right now, she likes writing reviews. She like writing so many reviews.
Jonathan Holmes
If you have any problems with modern media, Jonathan Holmes is probably to blame. He helped usher in the dominance of reality TV by appearing on Road Rules: Northern Trail, the first season to feature the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Then a decade or so later he became one of the first gaming YouTubers and streamers, co-hosting The Destructoid Show, creating the abysmal cartoon Teenage Pokemon, and live streaming complete playthroughs of games like Super Meat Boy on Justin.TV (the original name for Twitch). He also is the cohost of troubling podcasts like Dismal Jesters and Boston’s Favorite Son, the birthplace of the word(?) Chungus.
To try to make up for it, he’s been working behind the scenes to make gaming magazines relevant again, writing and providing art for such periodicals as Nintendo Force Magazine, A Profound Waste of Time, Lost in Cult’s Lock-On, Gamebound’s Generations, as well as a handful essays for art books by Limited Run Games. He also runs a not-troubling podcast called Talking to Women about Videogames.Â
